Bottle carrier or carton



July 24, 1934- c. D. KEITH ET AL BOTTLE CARRIER OR CARTON Filed Oct 22, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet l I ATTORNEY July" 24, 1934. c. D. KEITH El AL BOTTLE CARRIER 0R CART ON 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Oct. 22, 1932 TTORNEY Patented July 24, 1934 UNITED STATES BOTTLE CARRIER 0R CARTON Claude D. Keith, New

F. OBrien, Englewood, N. J Charles E; Culpeper, Norwalk, Conn.

Application October 22,

2 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in bottle-carriers or cartons.

This invention constitutes an improvement upon a bottle-carrier or carton of the type described and claimed in the former application of Claude D. Keith, Serial Number 634,386, filed September 22, 1932, wherein there is shown a bottle-carrier or carton comprising a single oblong strip of creasable material such as pasteboard or paper, creased and bent between its ends to produce the front and rear portions of a carton body and at each terminal end of the strip to produce handle flanges or flaps which, in the closed position of the carton are brought into abutment either between two rows of bottles or at one side of a single row of bottles to form a carrier handle, and the object of our present invention is to provide means whereby these handle flanges or portions may be securely fastened or interlocked to each other so as to fasten and securely retain the carton in closed position without materially increasing the cost of the carrier or carton.

Still another object of our invention is to provide means whereby the dual handle flanges of a carton of the type specified may be provided with double interlocking connections to provide a secure fastening of the abutting ends of the carton or handle flanges.

Still another object of our invention is to provide in a carton construction of the type specified, an interlocking connection in which one of the abutting handle flanges is reduced in width and inserted through a slot or slots in the opposing handle flange.

Still another object of our invention is to provide a flange which is inserted through the slots in the other flange in opposite direction so as to provide a more secure fastening between such flanges.

With these and other objects in view, the invention comprises the combination of members and arrangement of parts so combined as to coact and co-operate with each other in the performance of the functions and the accomplishment of the results herein contemplated, and comprises in one of its adaptions the species or preferred form illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:-'

Fig. 1 is a view in side elevation of a carrier or carton for a single row of bottles, embodying our invention;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2--2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a view in plan of the carton shown in Figs. 1 and 2;

York, N. Y., and Joseph assignors to 1932, Serial No. 639,006.

Fig. 4' is a fragmentary sectional view similar to Fig. 2, showing a modified form of connection;

Fig. 5 is a view in plan of the modified form of carton shown in Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary view in side elevation showing another modification of our invention applied to a carton for a single row of bottles;

Fig. 7 is a section on the line 7'? of Fig. 6 looking in the direction of the arrows;

Fig. 8 is a-fragmentary section showing the last-mentioned modification of our invention applied to a carton for a double row of bottles;

Fig. 9 is a view in plane of a strip of pasteboard cut and creased to permit erection of a carton for a double row of bottles suchas shown in Fig. 8;

Fig. 10 is a plan view similar to Fig. 9 of a strip of paste-board suitable for erection into a carton for a single row of bottles such as shown in Figs.- 6 and '7.

Referring now to all the views of these drawings, 1 indicates a strip of creasable material suitable for erection into a bottle carrier or carton and preferably is composed of .pasteboard or reinforced paper. This strip is provided at its middle portion and on its inner surface with parallel creases 2-2' adapted, when the material is bent at right-angles along the same, to provide a bottom 3 for the carton, and front and back sections 5-5' having hinge or foldable connections therewith and bendable at right angles to the bottom section, thus jointly forming, what we shall term, the body of the carton.

The said strip 1 is, in the preferred form illustrated in Figs. 8 and 9, provided at opposite sides of the bottom creases 2-2 and also on the inner surface, with parallel creases 44'. These creases are preferably positioned to limit the length of the back and front sections 55 to a height less than the length of the bottle to be carried and preferably to a height extending to a point below the neck of the bottle, and also to provide a hinged or foldable connection between the walls or body of the carton and neckengaging members or sections 7--7', bendable again in the same direction and in the form illustrated being bent in an inclined plane relatively to the back and front sections. The widths of the members or sections 7-7 will be determined by parallel creases 66' depressed in the opposite or external surface of the strip. The neck-engaging members 77' each preferably have elliptical longitudinal-extending bottleinsertion apertures 8 through which the top of the bottle is adapted to be projected and the upper and lower edges 8-8a. of which are adapted to abut against opposite sides of the bottle. Connected or applied to the top of each of the neck-engaging sections 7-'7' are handle flanges or flaps 9-9 which are adapted to extend vertically and to abut against each other between the two rows of ,bottles, and these abutting flaps or handle flanges are provided with registering hand-holes 9 formed through both of such flaps or handle flanges to permit ready gripping and carrying of the carrier.

In accordance with this invention, these handle flanges or flaps are interlocked with each other to close and retain the carton or carrier in closed position, and with this end in view, we provide adjacent to the hand hole or aperture of one of the abutting flanges 9-9, a transverse slot and reduce in width the opposite flange to enable the same to be inserted through said slot.

In said Figs. 8 and 9, we have provided the flanges or flaps 99 with a double interlocking connection. Thus a pair of slots 11---11 are positioned at opposite sides of the handhole 9 in the flange 9 and the insertion member or flange 9 is reduced, at 12 *-12 and first passed through the slot 11, thence passed through and interlocked with the other slot 11 so as to provide a more completely interlocked and thoroughly fastened construction with a double interlocking connection.

In Figs. 1 to 3 we have shown a construction designed for a single row of bottles. This form has a slot 10 beneath the hand-hold 9 in the flange 9 at the left side of the strip and we reduce the width of the flange 9' at 10, 10*, at the right-hand side of the strip so as to pass the same vertically therethrough, whereupon said left-hand flange 9 is then bent at 10 vertically into abutment with reduced flange 9'. In other respects, the construction is similar to the preferred construction illustrated in Figs. 8 and 9 hereinabove described.

In Figs. 4 and 5 we have shown a slot 10 in the flange 9 at the right-hand-side of the strip, and we reduce the flange 9 at 10, 10 at the opposite or left-hand side thereof. In this construction, the flange 9 is inserted horizontally instead of vertically through the slot 10, and then bent at 10 into abutment with the opposing handle flange so that the two hand holes 9" will register with each other and provide a carrying handle for the bottle carrier or carton.

In Figs. 6, 7 and 10, we have shown another modified form of our invention in which a pair of slots 11, 11 are positioned at opposite sides of the hand hole 9 in the flange 9 and the insertion member or flange 9 is reduced at 12-12 and first passed through the slot 11, then bent vertically at 11 and then interlocked with the other slot 11, thus providing a more completely interlocked and thoroughly fastened construction having a double interlocking connection.

In said Figs. 6, '7 and 10 we have shown this doubly-interlocked improvement applied to a bottle-carrier or carton for a single row of bottles.

Obviously the slots may be positioned in reference to the hand hole in either the left-hand or right-hand flange, it being understood that in either case, the opposite flange will be reduced in width and become the insertion flange, and that the insertion flange will be inserted first through the lower slot in the opposing flange and then through the upper slot therein, thus providing/between the two flanges a double interlocking connection and a more secure fastening for the carton.

Having described our invention, we claim:-

1. A carrier or carton embodying, in combination, a single substantially oblong strip of creasable material bent to provide between its ends 05 a carrier body-portion and at opposite ends of said strip, a pair of handle-forming flanges, one of the said flanges being reduced in width and the other one being provided with a slot, said reduced flange being insertable through said 110 slot to provide an interlocking connection between the flanges and having at the opposite side of said slot a portion bent into abutment with the opposite face of said slotted flange, and said flanges having registering apertures, 115 whereby a double-flange handle is provided.

2. A carrier or carton embodying, in combination, a single substantially oblong strip of creasable material bent to provide a carrier body- 7 portion and a pair of terminal handle flanges at opposite ends of said strip, one of said handle flanges being provided with a pair of parallel slots and the other being of reduced width to permit insertion first through one of said slots and subsequently through the other of said slots 125 to provide a double interlocking connection between such handle-flanges.

' CLAUDE D. KEITH.

JOSEPH F. OBRIEN. 

